[ For a time, Jayce would have been the one to pat himself on the back, both guilty and searching for reassurance at the same time. It took him really breaking down his privilege and listening to get there but he did. And that's why he doesn't necessarily expect her to forgive him or to understand, or to accept what he's saying, because she has every reason to feel the way she does. Even when he was mad at her, he understood it. He didn't have the stomach for what had to be done, but she did. She deserved the gloves. She would actually do something with them.
Any tension or fight going back between the two of them lets go at the moment, and he truly is listening to her, even now. Her validation, slight as it is, doesn't feel like a balm to his fragility anymore, because instead now it just means connection. A place they can start from.
Jayce starts to say something to that, to make more of a peace offering between them, but then she says what he sort of expected. The way she looked at him, how she asked how he was alive, he got it. And he knows how the timeline works, as he already explained, so that means she's later. Silco's dead. Their truce, if it was made at all, is invalid.
It's probably unexpected, how he almost doesn't react at first. Jayce lets out a breath and folds his hands on the table, letting it sink in. Maybe he should be angry or rail against it, or blame her, anyone, but instead he accepts that she is probably right. It sounds like it is. It could be his guilt, why should he live when the child died, or the reality that he's as mortal as everyone else. ]
What about Caitlyn? Was she ... is she safe, do you know? How did it happen?
[ Jayce doesn't say it isn't true. If Silco is dead then Jinx will get revenge. It's probably him or the Council or both. If that is true, it means Viktor at least is safe, and hopefully Caitlyn, as long as she didn't come back to talk. It's telling she is his first thought, his surrogate sister, not his own life. ]
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Any tension or fight going back between the two of them lets go at the moment, and he truly is listening to her, even now. Her validation, slight as it is, doesn't feel like a balm to his fragility anymore, because instead now it just means connection. A place they can start from.
Jayce starts to say something to that, to make more of a peace offering between them, but then she says what he sort of expected. The way she looked at him, how she asked how he was alive, he got it. And he knows how the timeline works, as he already explained, so that means she's later. Silco's dead. Their truce, if it was made at all, is invalid.
It's probably unexpected, how he almost doesn't react at first. Jayce lets out a breath and folds his hands on the table, letting it sink in. Maybe he should be angry or rail against it, or blame her, anyone, but instead he accepts that she is probably right. It sounds like it is. It could be his guilt, why should he live when the child died, or the reality that he's as mortal as everyone else. ]
What about Caitlyn? Was she ... is she safe, do you know? How did it happen?
[ Jayce doesn't say it isn't true. If Silco is dead then Jinx will get revenge. It's probably him or the Council or both. If that is true, it means Viktor at least is safe, and hopefully Caitlyn, as long as she didn't come back to talk. It's telling she is his first thought, his surrogate sister, not his own life. ]